East China’s Jiangsu province held a series of activities on Thursday to commemorate the 85th anniversary of outbreak of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
At 10 a.m. on Thursday, the Memorial Hall for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders held a ceremony of "raising the national flag and singing the national anthem."
The "Peace Promotion Messengers" composed of representatives of Nanjing Massacre survivors' descendants and representatives of primary school students in Nanjing City, together with representatives of Nanjing’s teachers, recited the Anti-Japanese War poem "Monument of the Nation".
"I listened quietly the voice of a nation clenching its fists. These two sentences can make me feel their spirit of devoting themselves to the motherland," said a pupil in Nanjing
On Thursday morning, the Nanjing Anti-Japanese War Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall for the first time reproduced the melody "Alliance" commemorating the Anti-Japanese War in the form of "Voice of Youth".
The song was composed by Zhao Liangzhang, a well-known martyr in Yuhuatai and an air force pilot, his comrade-in-arms Martyr Xue Jiemin wrote the lyrics and sung by his wife Jiang Pingzhong.
"If the martyrs had not sacrificed their lives and fought hard one after another, there would not be the beautiful life we have today. The fearless spirit of revolutionary pioneers will always inspire us to work tirelessly," said a College Student.
At the Memorial Hall of the former site of the New Fourth Army, the national flag was raised, the national anthem was presented, flower baskets and flowers were presented while the youth representatives read poems to mourn the martyrs who died in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
